Capture problem with Haupaugge WinTV PCI

[Petri]

I have a weird problem when I enter capture mode in VirtualDub it turns my monitor to some kind of stand by stage and makes impossible to do anything and I have to reboot to fix the problem. Capturing used to work, but since last time I used VirtualDub I have upgraded my PC and drivers, etc. Does anyone have idea which could cause this? And I tryed with another capture program and same problem.

My system:
Windows 98
MSI K7T Turbo2
AMD Athlon 1600 1.4GHz
Soundblaster Live Value
512MB PC133
Asus GeForce 2 MX v7100
Haupaugge WinTV PCI (with latest drivers)
Belinea 19" Monitor
30GB Maxtor ATA66
DirectX 8.1
Detonator XP 23.10

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Petri on 2001-12-10 10:51:53 ]</font>

[owix]

Yep... Problems with WinTV PCI... As we all have...

First of all, you wasn´t exact enough in your info:

Are you using Windows 98 of 98 SE?

Are your drivers wfw or wdm drivers?

If you are using Windows 98, you can´t use wdm drivers and then your problem should be easy to solve:

get hcwclear prog from hauppauge´s site and run it to remove all wintv programs. restart the computer and install the latest wfw driver set for win98. Restart and install the latest WinTV programs.

If this doesn´t work try hcwclear for second time... If second install is not successful, reinstall operating system... I know, but I have had to do it for couple of times myself because of crooked drivers.

Virtualdub should work with wfw drivers without any problems!!!

If you are using Windows 98 SE and you have installed wdm drivers then you should know that virtualdub doesn´t work with wdm-drivers. I once tried wdm drivers with 98 se and if I remember it right there wasn´t wdm to wfw wrapper included then...

After my "adventure" I moved to windows 2000 and infact last friday I installed _latest_ wdm drivers (in hauppauges site they are advertised as XP-drivers) and everything started working! virtualdub captures though wdm to wfw wrapper included and PowerVCR II 2.0 (PCPro bundle) gives good (but not excellent) results in capturing... Old drivers (both wdm and wfw) made much errors in the captures.

But would I recommend using the new wdm-driver set? Not yet, ´cause I haven´t made any long (1 hour or so) captures yet. In the moment, if would use the kind of system you have with windows 98 SE and latest wfw drivers. and i would capture with huffy in large resolutions and then compress to whatever format you want. Or if powervcr´s quality is allright for you I would try it.

BTW: In the "old" wdm drivers the uninstallation and hcwclear wasn´t succesful removing all driver information. My second computer is now waiting for os reinstall because now it can´t take wfw or wdm drivers in it. Naturally I haven´t removed xp-drivers because they seem to work, so I don´t know if this is corrected.

Owix

[Petri]

I have Win98 and I am using WTVDRV42 drivers. I downloaded new AGP driver and WTVDRV43_19301 driver, let's see if it start to work with those.

I guess we shouldn't upgrade our computer if all is working well

[Petri]

After about 50+ reboots, a lot of time used with messing up with BIOS setting, installing/uninstalling drivers I got the capture to work. I don't know what was the problem, maybe it was those Asus capture drivers I did have installed, but main thing is that capturing work very well now. Thanks to great FAQ at hauppauge.com I got also lock up problem fixed during capture.